Summary · why it matters
Better World Green Public Company Limited, or BWG, and Akkhie Prakarn Public Company Limited, or AKP, joined hands to support the government at the annual ceremony to destroy seized items in finalized intellectual property infringement cases for the year 2026, organized by the Department of Intellectual Property under the Ministry of Commerce together with the Royal Thai Police, the Customs Department, and the Department of Special Investigation. The event was held at the reserve training ground of the 1st Air Defense Artillery Battalion, 7th Regiment, Air Defense Command, Royal Thai Army, in Don Mueang District, Bangkok, with Dr. Piyanuch Wuttisorn, Assistant Minister to the Ministry of Commerce, presiding over the ceremony. The seized items destroyed this year totaled 2,085,705 pieces, representing economic damage of more than 2.145 billion baht, an increase of more than 36.45 percent from the previous year, covering consumer goods, clothing, bags, electronic devices, automotive parts, as well as sensitive product groups such as counterfeit drugs, medical supplies, and cosmetics. The group of companies was entrusted with responsibility for the entire disposal process under the ISO 14001:2015 environmental management standard system. General, non-hazardous seized goods will be sent to the renewable energy center at Nakhon Luang Industrial Estate in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province to be crushed and shredded, completely destroying their condition before being processed into industrial refuse-derived fuel, or RDF, to feed the power plant of Recovery House Company Limited, part of the Earth Tech Environment Public Company Limited group. Meanwhile, seized items in the chemical, drug, medical supply, and counterfeit cosmetics groups will be sent to the high-temperature incinerator industrial waste disposal management center of Akkhie Prakarn Public Company Limited at Bang Pu Industrial Estate in Samut Prakan Province, which uses specialized incinerator technology controlling temperatures above 1,000 to 1,200 degrees Celsius, along with air pollution treatment systems and a real-time air quality monitoring system, or CEMS, to ensure complete combustion with no residue, no odor, and no impact on the environment or surrounding communities.
Akkhie Prakarn Public Company Limited
Better World Green Public Company Limited
Earth Tech Environment Public Company Limited